Ghost of Xmas past

That's another Christmas out the way then, in a way I'm glad but also in a way a little bit sad, cos it is a nice time of year and it was fun to go down to my sister's house to the wee ones (my nice and nephew wreak total havoc of course!).  I've got a bit of a cold too and wasn't feeling so great last night but I'm getting a bit better now.  Thankfully we are starting to get a bit of a thaw also but we need a bit more aswell as the ice out there on the pavements is pretty treacherous, so hopefully in January things will turn tropical!  Fat chance of course.

Onto other things, not much on the telly, about the best things I've seen where the Peep Show and Tell documentary about the comedy show eveyone (just about) loves with David Mitchell and Robert Webb chatting about the history of the series.  The Christmas episode was also quite funny where Mark invites his parents round to tea with disastrous consequences, and poor Dobby his girlfriend (the ever strangely cute Isy Suttie) is subjected to Mark's thoroughly obnoxious father, but the end where he stands up to him is great (the best use of a shredder ever!). 

On Christmas day we had the Doctor Who special A Christmas Carol, which to be honest was a bit disappointing, the specials tend not to be too great and this was no real exception.  To be fair there were some funny moments, and Matt Smith is still very likeable as the Doctor (especially the bit where he fiddles about with the console at the beginning and he says "there is no such thing as isomorphic" then he tries to work it no avail and says "this is isomorphic!".  But the story seemed to be lacking something that the series episodes have, an extra bit of spark and ingenuity.  Michael Gambon does very well as the Scrooge part and Katherine Jenkins if nothing else looks rather nice (they had to work in a bit where she sings of course!).  I also felt there wasn't enough of Amy and Rory, the Doctor really needs his companions too to keep the dynamics of the show going, and there presence was largely sidelined by the storyline. 

Anyways that's it for now will be back soon with more blogging entries.